Actually think about the things we have changed to be "safer" or "more tolerant" or "healthier"
Things banned in the common good:
France—banning the inciting of thinness…will go after any magazine or tv show for inciting thinness. Up to 70k fine.
Mississippi – a bill to prohibit restaurants from serving the obese.
Here are things liberals have guilted us into giving up or using or banning.
Christmas ( winter festival) Prayer Lead paint Low flow toilets Low flow shower heads Freon in air conditioners Paper bags…then plastic now back to paper Coffee was bad now ok Aerosol hairspray Ethanol Incandescent light bulbs Cutting trees on your own property Nuclear power Coal power Transfats in New York DDT Smoking Fois Gras in Chicago Helmets for bikers, skaters Monkey bars or Jungle Gym in Playgrounds High slides on playgrounds Seatbelts Garbage Disposals ( North Caroliona tried to ban them in 2008) Rare Hamburgers (must be medium rare, cept for Iowa where it must be medium well) Firecrackers Diving Boards in public pools Tag in schools ( only one can be IT, discriminatory) Dodge ball (too rough) Touch football (too rough) Guns
Teachers in UK cannot use husband, wife boyfriend spouse girlfriend mother father. Instead partner. (homophobia sensitivity.)
Great idea there, lets let hundreds of thousands of people die of malaria so we can save the bald eagles. all this talk about how much they value everyones lives when its clear they only care about their personal agenda.
DAMN, Im Thirsty! I want a beer, how bout you? You want a beer?
Not quite on track here, but do you all remember the mountain lion that was killed several years ago after killing a young girl? More money was given for the welfare of the lion cubs than for the family of the deceased child. What does that say?
Originally posted by SmoknAviator: More money was given for the welfare of the lion cubs than for the family of the deceased child. What does that say?
The the lioness didn't have life insurance?
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Originally posted by Mowee: Actually think about the things we have changed to be "safer" or "more tolerant" or "healthier"
Things banned in the common good:
France—banning the inciting of thinness…will go after any magazine or tv show for inciting thinness. Up to 70k fine
Mississippi – a bill to prohibit restaurants from serving the obese.
Here are things liberals have guilted us into giving up or using or banning.
Christmas ( winter festival) Prayer Lead paint Low flow toilets Low flow shower heads Freon in air conditioners Paper bags…then plastic now back to paper Coffee was bad now ok Aerosol hairspray Ethanol Incandescent light bulbs Cutting trees on your own property Nuclear power Coal power Transfats in New York DDT Smoking Fois Gras in Chicago Helmets for bikers, skaters Monkey bars or Jungle Gym in Playgrounds High slides on playgrounds Seatbelts Garbage Disposals ( North Caroliona tried to ban them in 2008) Rare Hamburgers (must be medium rare, cept for Iowa where it must be medium well) Firecrackers Diving Boards in public pools Tag in schools ( only one can be IT, discriminatory) Dodge ball (too rough) Touch football (too rough) Guns
Teachers in UK cannot use husband, wife boyfriend spouse girlfriend mother father. Instead partner. (homophobia sensitivity.)
Drill for oil in and around America. Build refineries. Assert American dominance and expand. Not take over other countries, however, the Iraqis should be paying us in oil, for example. Seal the borders and deport illegals. Stop allowing illegals to have "anchor babies" The list could go on and on.
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Great idea there, lets let hundreds of thousands of people die of malaria so we can save the bald eagles. all this talk about how much they value everyones lives when its clear they only care about their personal agenda.
i,am sure many of you on the board can remember this. but what the good ol days when within minutes of a movie started all you could smell was cigarette smoke and the like? now it is banned. or smoking after a meal? or at a stadium? or my fave sitting in madison square garden and smelling ciggies and what not.
Who are we blaming for some of those things on Mowee's list up above? Take the schoolyard safety issues, for instance ... when you and I were kids, we rode bikes and skated without helmets. The public pools had both a low board and a high board. The higher the sliding board, the jungle gym or monkey bars, the better. Of course we played touch and dodgeball (though even as a kid, I was aware of a dark side of that game). Part of growing up was getting your share of bumps, cuts, scrapes, bruises and the occasional busted collarbone. And every once in a great while, some child died in a horrible playground or swimming pool accident, but we all knew that couldn't happen to us.
When we got litigious as a society, parents realized that their kid's broken arm could net them thousands (or more) in negligence lawsuits and other civil actions, God forbid defending a wrongful death suit. Insurance costs for a municipality's recreational programs, public school districts and private schools skyrocketed ro unattainable heights, and they did the only fiscally sound thing they could do -- make the playgrounds and swimming pools as bump, scrape and bruise-free as possible, disallow games in which kids play rough and any activities in which they could possibly get hurt. Eliminate their exposure.
I agree it's a shame, but it's also understandable. Unlike 'nanny' laws, these aren't so much to protect the kids from themselves as they are to protect the institutions.
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Originally posted by bklynkid: i,am sure many of you on the board can remember this. but what the good ol days when within minutes of a movie started all you could smell was cigarette smoke and the like? now it is banned. or smoking after a meal? or at a stadium? or my fave sitting in madison square garden and smelling ciggies and what not.
Whatever happened to the national anthem being played before the movie?
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Originally posted by kechke: I think there is a place in the US where anything other than the missionary position with your wife is illegal.
I've heard of that too, I think it's some southern state.
ha, its actually maryland
Even in that small right angle triangle of Maryland that's stuck between Pennsylvania and West Virginia, just west of Cumberland??? I don't believe it.
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Whatever happened to the national anthem being played before the movie?
They didn't do that where I grew up, in upstate NY. I only remember the Star-Spangled Banner being played before one movie -- "The Longest Day"
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Posts: 4066 | Location: Boston | Registered: April 16, 2005
after all we are to stupid 
so lets pass more laws and control us idiots as much as possible 
